Prior to the advent of the CFP, teams ranked outside the top 5ish or so rarely uttered a peep about being left out of the title conversation. It would have been ludicrous to do so. If you were ranked outside the top 3 or 4 teams at the end of the season, you really didn't have an argument and just accepted that you weren't good enough that year. Maybe you finished 3rd and had an argument that you should have been #2. But if you were 5th, 6th, etc, it was too much of a leap to suggest you should be in the top 2. Along comes the CFP and everyone and their brother believes they're a title contender and deserves a shot. I can't remember ever hearing a 10th ranked team (or lower) whining and complaining that they weren't getting a shot to play for the title. The 4-team CFP made sense. There's variability in rankings and a lot of years and some years there's not a great deal of distinction between top 3-4 teams. Now you have teams ranked in the mid-teens b*tching that they aren't getting a shot. It's like the grownups have left the building.
And everyone's grand solution? Expand it even more! People weren't happy with 2 teams. People weren't happy with 4 teams. People aren't happy with 12 teams. So 16 teams is OBVIOUSLY the magic solution. You'll have teams ranked outside the top 25 b*thing and moaning about not getting a shot. Mark it down.
I'm not arguing the way things are it. The die has been cast and the damage is irreversible. I just want to know WHY, and nobody has ever been able to explain it. People will argue the point, but nobody ever actually defends the point.
Why is that pre-CFP nobody ever, and I mean EVER, in the entire history of college football felt that a 10th ranked team should be considered a title contender but with the advent of the CFP it's just a foregone conclusion that the 10th ranked team is a contender and also that they DESERVE it?
And everyone's grand solution? Expand it even more! People weren't happy with 2 teams. People weren't happy with 4 teams. People aren't happy with 12 teams. So 16 teams is OBVIOUSLY the magic solution. You'll have teams ranked outside the top 25 b*thing and moaning about not getting a shot. Mark it down.
I'm not arguing the way things are it. The die has been cast and the damage is irreversible. I just want to know WHY, and nobody has ever been able to explain it. People will argue the point, but nobody ever actually defends the point.
Why is that pre-CFP nobody ever, and I mean EVER, in the entire history of college football felt that a 10th ranked team should be considered a title contender but with the advent of the CFP it's just a foregone conclusion that the 10th ranked team is a contender and also that they DESERVE it?
